[crossfire] Re: Item stacking

[alex_sch at telus.net]

Quoting Lalo Martins <
     
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      I think on Bigworld scale (since "outdoors" has the same scale as
     
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      "in-city"), it makes more sense for a square to be a chain.  Otherwise
     
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      you'll be wondering how come Scorn is 40 miles long, and the imperial
     
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      road is 3 miles wide, and the "little" inn near the dragon hatchery is 2
     
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      miles... whereas one chain makes perfect sense (although it makes
     
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      Bigworld less "big").
     
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      Come to think of it, people who never heard of a chain might as well
     
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      assume it's a fictional measuring unit, representing a square.
     
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      But then I agree with you - pick the unit that sounds right, and stick
     
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      to it.  Just say "11 chains", not "1 furlong"; "80 chains", not "one mile".
     
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      (Then people who know what a chain is, or who are obsessive enough to
     
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      look it up, can be pleased and amazed at how the measurements all make
     
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      sense.)
     
     
Of course, even with outdoor squares measured in chains, players run perhaps a
little too fast ;P
Then again, it's much better than when it was miles ;P
(I'm not complaining though, as the scorn-navar walk time is long enough as it is)

Alex Schultz